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Maximizing Fruit Quality of Low-chill Peaches Through Optimum Preharvest-Management Practices
Mark RitenourUniversity of Florida
Indian River Research and Education Center, Fort Pierce
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Define “High Quality” Peach
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Consumers’ three highest preferences for
peach attributes
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Most Important Attributes in Peaches
J.K. Brecht
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Fruit Development
Combination of cell division and cell enlargement
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Fruit Growth Curves• Double sigmoid.
• Stage I – cell division and some cell enlargement
• Lasts from bloom to ~50 days
• Stage II – pit hardening, embryo growth
• Last a few days to 2 months
• Little increase in fruit size, but dry weight increases
• Stage III – final swell, cell enlargement, water is very critical at this stage
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Double sigmoid
Temperate-Zone
Pomology
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Different Factors are Important
• Genotype
• Light
• Light induces better fruit color
• High light (exterior canopy) = better postharvest shelf life than shaded (interior) fruit.
• Shaded fruit = more Internal Breakdown potential
• Temperature
• High temperatures during bloom advance maturity, but also tend to decrease fruit size (probably due to CHO limits)
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Different Factors are Important
• Plant nutrition (esp. N)
• Excess N = delays fruit color development, greater postharvest fruit water loss, and more postharvest disease
• Water
• Deficit water supply around floral bud initiation can result in misshapen fruit
• Stage II growth appears most resistant to deficit irrigation, may result in fruit with thicker cuticle and denser trichomes (slower water loss postharvest)
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Carbohydrate (CHO) SupplyImportant for:
• Movement from Juvenility to the Adult Reproductive phase
• Floral Bud Initiation (FBI)• E.g., Girdling, ringing – causes CHO accumulation and
results in greater flowering response in many plants
• Fruit Set
• Fruit Drop
• During fruit development, there are periods of resource limitation (not enough CHOs)
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Sites & Reitz, 1949
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Fruit Thinning• Under optimal
conditions, stone fruit set more fruit than are needed for a full commercial crop
• Thinning – Increasing the leaf:fruit ratio by removing some of the fruit causes the remaining fruit to be larger
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Temperate-Zone
Pomology, 1993
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Fruit Thinning
• Increases fruit size
• By decreasing competition for CHO/substrates needed for growth
• Thinning before cell division ends tends to stimulate more cell division
• Thinning after cell division may increase the size of cells
• Increases fruit quality
• E.g. sugar content, color, etc.
• CHO/substrate response
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Fruit Thinning
• The ideal crop load will vary for different cultivars
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Fruit Thinning• For best results, thinning is usually done early
in fruit development during the cell division stage
• Early thinning especially important during high temperatures during and after bloom
• Stimulates more cell division (= larger fruit) in the remaining fruit
• If thinned after rapid growth stage, often get very little effect
• As thinning is delayed, there is less and less of an affect on fruit size
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Fruit Maturity
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• Harvest maturity determines a fruit’s postharvest potential:
– Too early = poor flavor potential, and greater susceptibilityto physiological disorders, abrasion injury, and water loss
– The ability of the fruit to ripen properly can be compromised
– More susceptible to chilling injury (internal breakdown)
– Too late = greater susceptibility to bruising and decay;possible off-flavor
Harvest Maturity
J.K. Brecht
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Maturity Indices• Size (minimum diameter)
– Peaches may begin ripening before they reach full size
• Ground color development (green to yellow)
• Softening first occurs at the blossom end
• Location on tree: top and outside fruit normally mature first
• Also, internal color, soluble solids content (SSC), acidity and SSC/acidity ratio all change
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Quality Indices
• High SSC is the most important attribute for high consumer acceptance
• Fruit acidity, SSC:acidity ratio and phenolic content arealso important for consumer acceptance
• Fruit below 6-8 pounds-force are more acceptable to consumers than firmer fruit
• (from Crisosto, Mitcham & Kader, “Nectarine &Peach: Recommendations for Maintaining PostharvestQuality”http://postharvest.ucdavis.edu/PFfruits/NectarinePeach/)
J.K. Brecht
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Melting Flesh vs Nonmelting Flesh• Melting flesh varieties need to be harvested beforeripening gets substantially underway because excessivesoftening limits their shelf life
• Non-melting flesh varieties can be harvested at a riper stage and still be firm enough to withstand handling
= higher SSC (Brix, sugar) and lower acidity
= better color and more peach flavor
= less susceptibility to internal breakdown (chilling injury)
J.K. Brecht
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Melting Flesh vs Nonmelting Flesh
• Let’s say that 8 lbs is the minimum firmness/maximum maturity that can be run overyour packingline or shipped without incurringbruising
An 8-lb non-melting flesh peach is a much riper fruitthan an 8-lb melting flesh peach
• Actual bruising thresholds actually vary substantially and therefore must be determinedfor each variety
J.K. Brecht
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Melting Flesh and Nonmelting Flesh Peaches Have Different Softening Patterns
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J.K. Brecht
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